What, When, Where, How, Who2
Some background on sp_who2 from Jason Brimhall and a dive into the inner workings of how to find current activity on an SQL instance.
2010-06-14
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sp_who2
View connection and Locking Information
This script combines sp_who2 and sp_lock to get meaning full info that includes host Ip address
2010-05-17 (first published: 2009-06-23)
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usp_SQL_In_sp_who2
Ammends the sp_who2 procedure with the input buffer contents, ususally the SQL statement for that SPID
2009-04-24 (first published: 2009-03-27)
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Indepth SPID information
This SP gives you most of the detail you need on a long running query. Simply pass the SPID.
2009-01-12 (first published: 2008-12-31)
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Question of the Day
Getting the Average
I have this data in the dbo.Commission table in a SQL Server 2022 database.
salesperson commission Brian 12 Brian 16 Andy 7 Andy 14 Andy 21 Steve 20 Steve NULLAll the data is a varchar, and I decide to run this query to get the totals for each salesperson.
SELECT SalesPerson
, AVG(TRY_PARSE(Commission AS int)) AS TotalCommission
FROM commission
GROUP BY SalesPerson
GO
What average commission is calculated for Steve? See possible answers